I am not blaming the women for not having served. What I wanted to highlight with the "draft dodge" between quotes is that the reason they weren't drafted is as void as pretending that you had bone spurs, from a modern progressive standpoint. I'll concede that women didn't have a lot of representation back in the day, but so did a lot of the men required to serve. And they nonetheless did have the right to vote, so they do share part of the collective responsibility for the behaviour of elected politicians.
From a modern, progressive point of view, it seems obvious that if you are going to require people to serve then everyone should serve, regardless of race, gender or social status. This was not the case during the Vietnam era, and I think that draft dodging should thus be seen more as civil disobedience than something shameful. However, the framing it is given when used to shame politicians by progressive outlets such as the NYT is far from that, I think it is hypocritical to fight for equality yet fail to recognize how young men, and young men alone, were buried under this obligation.
From a modern, progressive point of view, it seems obvious that if you are going to require people to serve then everyone should serve, regardless of race, gender or social status. This was not the case during the Vietnam era, and I think that draft dodging should thus be seen more as civil disobedience than something shameful. However, the framing it is given when used to shame politicians by progressive outlets such as the NYT is far from that, I think it is hypocritical to fight for equality yet fail to recognize how young men, and young men alone, were buried under this obligation.